Competitiveness and environmental performance in Spanish small and medium enterprises: is there a direct link?

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 101, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-37

  Larrán Jorge, Manuel ^a   Herrera Madueño, Jesús ^a   Martínez Martínez, Domingo ^a   Lechuga Sancho, María Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Environmental performance; Relational marketing; Small and medium sized enterprises; Structural equations; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MARKETING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84930379836     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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